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Tech Brew Ride Home episodes
- Wed. 12/15 – Google To Adopt Vaccine Mandate?
Is Google the first Silicon Valley company to adopt a vaccine mandate? A new foldable phone from Oppo. Why the US might ban you from investing in DJI. Twitter gets auto captions. And a look at the up and coming Chinese ecommerce giant that you might have already heard of, but definitely need to be aware of going forward.
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Google tells employees they’ll lose pay and will eventually be fired if they don’t follow vaccination rules (CNBC)Oppo’s Find N is an impressive first folding phone (The Verge)Twitter adds auto captions feature to make videos more accessible (TechCrunch)Apple and Google's mobile duopoly likely to face UK antitrust action (TechCrunch)US to blacklist eight more Chinese companies including dronemaker DJI (Financial Times)How Shein beat Amazon at its own game — and reinvented fast fashion (Rest of World)Submit top stories of the year to us! https://chrismessina.me/topstories
19 min - Tue. 12/14 – Is Log4j The Worst Bug Of All Time?
More fallout from what is now being called potentially the worst bug of all time. Apple helps Android users discover if they’re being tracked by AirTags. A new entrant into the AR and VR product category that I guess we’re going to be covering going forward. Amazon is coming for DoorDash and Instacart. And how much did Meta have to pay to become Meta?
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CISA warns 'most serious' Log4j vulnerability likely to affect hundreds of millions of devices (CyberScoop)The numbers behind a cyber pandemic – detailed dive (Check Point)Apple launches AirTags and Find My detector app for Android, in effort to boost privacy (CNET)Oppo announces Air Glass ‘assisted reality’ device (The Verge)Amazon Ramps Up Plans for Instacart-Like Service in U.S., Europe (The Information)Nike acquires NFT collectibles studio RTFKT (TechCrunch)Facebook Owner Is Involved in $60M Deal Over Meta Trademark Assets (Coinspeaker)Send us your nomination for the top tech stories of the year: chrismessina.me/topstories
19 min - Mon. 12/13 – Why the Log4j Bug Is Such A Big Deal
A huge bug in Apache servers is causing chaos around the Internet. What to expect, and what we’re still waiting on from iOS 15.2. Why did Instagram steal the @metaverse handle from a woman in Australia, and the story of the fat finger fire sale of a Board Ape Yacht Club NFT.
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- Grammarly.com/techmeme
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Zero-day in ubiquitous Log4j tool poses a grave threat to the Internet (ArsTechnica)The Internet’s biggest players are all affected by critical Log4Shell 0-day (ArsTechnica)PROFESSIONAL MAINTAINERS: A WAKE-UP CALL (Filippo.io)Apple Set to Release Nudity Detection in Texting, But Other Features Remain on Hold (Bloomberg)Her Instagram Handle Was ‘Metaverse.’ Last Month, It Vanished. (NYTimes)Bored Ape Yacht Club: Someone accidentally sold a $300,000 NFT for $3,000 (CNET)19 min - (Bonus) a16z's Andrew Chen On The Cold Start Problem
The great Andrew Chen of a16z joins us to discuss his new book: The Cold Start Problem: How to Start and Scale Network Effects. This an indispensable guide to get that "rocket-ship" action going for whatever product or company you're working with.
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- AltoIra.com/techmeme
29 min - Fri. 12/10 – Google Play Games Coming To Windows
Google Play games are coming to Windows, while Microsoft was apparently willing to bend over backwards if Apple had let xCloud games into the iOS app store. Meta’s first tangible foray into the Metaverse. The English Football punters buying into NFTs. And, of course, the weekend longreads suggestions.
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- Tovala.com/ride
- My First Million Podcast
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Google is bringing Android games to Windows in 2022 (The Verge)MICROSOFT QUIETLY TOLD APPLE IT WAS WILLING TO TURN BIG XBOX-EXCLUSIVE GAMES INTO IPHONE APPS (The Verge)Meta opens up access to its VR social platform Horizon Worlds (The Verge)Football fans spending millions on club crypto-tokens (BBC News)Weekend Longreads Suggestions:
Pokémon and the First Wave of Digital Nostalgia (The New Yorker)Half a Billion in Bitcoin, Lost in the Dump (The New Yorker)Amazon is making its own containers and bypassing supply chain chaos with chartered ships and long-haul planes (CNBC)HOW AN EXCEL TIKTOKER MANIFESTED HER WAY TO MAKING SIX FIGURES A DAY (The Verge)Three Steps To The Future (Ben Evans' 2022 Slide Deck)On “Succession,” Jeremy Strong Doesn’t Get the Joke (The New Yorker)19 min - Thu. 12/09 – Instagram To Return To A Chronological Feed
Instagram is going to bring back a version of its chronological feed, sort of. The congressional hearings about Instagram, but also crypto. I was wrong: we are seeing Novi in the wild as WhatsApp starts testing it in the US. Deep Mind unveils its language model, and say goodbye to… checks notes… Alexa?
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Instagram Chief and Lawmakers Clash Over App’s Real World Harms (Bloomberg)Instagram will bring back a chronological feed in 2022 (Engadget)What we learned at Congress' much-anticipated summit of crypto execs (The Block)Epic v. Apple ruling put on hold after appeals court grants a stay (The Verge)Italy fines Amazon €1.13B for abusing market dominance (Politico.eu)WhatsApp launches cryptocurrency payment in the US with Novi (9to5Mac)Kickstarter Will Move Its Crowdfunding Platform to Blockchain (Bloomberg)DeepMind says its new language model can beat others 25 times its size (MIT Technology Review)Amazon is shutting down web ranking site Alexa.com (BleepingComputer)17 min - Wed. 12/08 – AWS Outage Is Why You Didn’t Get Your Package
That AWS outage yesterday disrupted Amazon’s own delivery efforts. When we might see the AirPods Pro 2. More specific details on the Apple AR thingy. Ubisoft is the first major player to bring NFTs to games. And a look at the records being set in the African startup investment scene.
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- WealthFront.com/techmeme
- FindYourFidelity.com
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An Amazon server outage caused problems for Alexa, Ring, Disney Plus, and deliveries (The Verge)AWS Outage Grinds Amazon Warehouses and Deliveries to a Halt (Motherboard)Kuo: AirPods Pro 2 With New Design and Improved Chip to Launch in Late 2022 (Macrumors)Kuo: Second-Generation Apple AR Headset to Launch in 2024 With Lighter Design, Redesigned Battery System, and More (Macrumors)Ubisoft Becomes First Major Gaming Company to Launch In-Game NFTs (Decrypt)Roku, Google settle messy battle over YouTube distribution (Axios)Facebook's new website lets fans buy 'Stars' without paying the app stores' commissions (TechCrunch)African Startup Inflows Seen Hitting Record $5 Billion This Year (Bloomberg)Twitter’s New CEO Agrawal Got Early Nod From Dorsey a Year Ago (Bloomberg)17 min - Tue. 12/07 – Tim Cook’s Secret China Deal?
The Information has a story about a secret deal Apple struck that really solidifies Tim Cook as the China whisperer. Intel proves itself to be an astute investor as it weighs a public spinoff of Mobileye. European tech startups raise all-time record amounts. Quantifying this year’s emerging NFT market. And the first ever marketable quantum computing product?
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- Detectify.com/techmeme
- ARM Viewpoints Podcast
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Facing Hostile Chinese Authorities, Apple CEO Signed $275 Billion Deal With Them (The Information)Samsung's mobile and consumer electronic divisions merge into one in exec reshuffle (ZDNet)Intel to List Shares in Mobileye Unit (WSJ)The Popular Family Safety App Life360 Is Selling Precise Location Data on Its Tens of Millions of Users (The Markup)Microsoft Office prices going up 20% for some business clients unless they move from monthly to annual subscriptions (CNBC)European start-up funding triples to a new record above $100 billion this year (CNBC)[Report Preview] The 2021 NFT Market Explained (Chainalysis)Honeywell Unit Offers First-Ever Quantum-Created Encryption Key (Bloomberg)18 min - Mon. 12/06 – DoorDash Tries Something Radical: Employees
DoorDash tests a wildly new business model: employees! Apple launches a Winter War in Russia. Two stories of US telecom companies doing what US telecom companies do: act shady. And Buzzfeed finally hits the public markets.
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- FirstRepublic.com
- Enterprise.Spectrum.com
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DoorDash breaks gig worker model to hire couriers as employees in New York trial (Financial Times)Apple Attempts to Stop Developers Promoting Alternative Payment Options for In-App Purchases in Russia (MacRumors)Crypto exchange BitMart confirms hack resulting in loss of $150 million in crypto (The Block)The Verizon app might be collecting your browsing history and more (The Verge)Apple iPhone 13 Rebates Fail to Deliver for Some Buyers (Bloomberg)BuzzFeed Tumbles in Turbulent Debut for Digital Media (Bloomberg)17 min - (TWTR SPC) Jack Dorsey, Halo Infinite And Foldable Phones
Mulling over the whole legacy of Jack Dorsey and name changes for tech companies in general. The weird way gaming is changing right now (see: Halo Infinite). And are foldable phones ready for the big time? With Bloomberg's @vladsavov
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- AltoIra.com/techmeme
- RadPowerBikes.com
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